SPIDERS!!
 

I hate spiders, I have an huge fear of even the daddy long legs. If it is less than a millimeter in length, I hate them. Ever since moving down here, it seems there are ten times more spiders around. I have to walk out my front door and wave my hand almost every morning to break up the webs that have appeared overnight. The worst part is that they have taken up residence outside my sliding glass door! I am not talking little ones either, I am talking about big nasty ones that have red and black legs. I don't know what the tops of them look like because I only get the bottom view. There are 2 of those and about 3 that look like daddy long legs, but are harvestmen and aren't really spiders. Don't care, they still look like ones. I was trying to idetify the ugly ones but totally creeped myself out with all the pictures. I don't care if they are poisonous, I just want them to go away!!

Spiders
 

Spiders are totally cool. How about I send you my Palmetto Bugs (wood roaches) and I'll take your spiders.:neutral:

(ok, I admit, I had to look them up) AAAAHHHHHH, NO, NONONONONONO!!

bbro, the vacuum cleaner is your friend. :D

I spray starch 'em, then kill them by throwing a shoe across the room at them. I don't get close because they jump and they are out to get me!

Stupid me bought one without attachments!! :smack:

They actually aren't too bad since they are outside, but I can't open the blinds because I will stare at them, expecting an attack to shatter the glass and wrap me in a big cocoon the second I look away. The thing that REALLY creeped me out is what happened the other day. I noticed that spiders were building webs, so I closed my screen door on the outside of the glass door. That way, I can open the door, shattering the webs, hopefully dislodging the spider so that it runs away for a bit and walk outside. This is also useful if they don't run away, I can always slam the door closed. Well, the other day, I did this, not seeing any spiders. And they BOTH dropped from where ever they were posed to attack. I slammed the screen and glass door shut and had the wilies the rest of the day. One of them just sat there and LOOKED at me!! I know he was!!!


*shiver*

I love spiders...I hate it when ppl kill them. I HATE roaches...I have nightmares about those...
So I can understand the spider-fear (can't remember the name for it and don't have time to look it up)
Try building a frame or something (you can use it to grow vines on) farther away from the house and that might lure them there because the vines would also attract bugs for them. Good luck!

We are all in this together... spiders are your friends.

arachniphobia (sp?) - I remember because of the movie :D

I don't always kill them unless they are in the house, then they are invading my home. I just want them to go away. I don't know why they like it there, though, I never have the outside light on in the back.


Spiders like me way too much. I always get bit by them. It must be the warmer climate that makes it seem like there are sooo many.

Lots of spiders in the basements in Colorado when the weather gets cooler. I still hate them, but we have decided to coexist as long as they stay out of my bed and don't skitter across my computer screen when the lights are out in my room.

One spider in the house is good luck. don't kill your good luck spider!

Ok, I will leave one. In fact, I know which one! He lives by the mini crawlspace under my stairs. He kills other bugs I don't like and just chills there. Very small, too. He only showed up a little bit ago. Maybe it is a good sign!!

It is said hedgeballs (Osage Orange) repel spiders. I tried with one and had none in that corner of the room, but that may have been coincidence. They grow in more southerly climes... occasionally you can find them in grocery stores too.

Huh. I never heard them called hedgeballs. Makes sense, though.

Damn, Osage repels spiders, too? Man, that's a vicious plant.

Read the chapter in The Hobbit where they go through Mirwood, then the chapter in The Two Towers where they go through Cirith Ungol. Then get rid of all the rest of the bugs in your house - the spiders are there to eat THEM, not you.